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Daily local newspaper for CornwallWed, 03 Feb 2016 19:47:08 +0000en-UShourly1NEW APHEX ALBUM???!!!!http://www.cornwallcommunitynews.co.uk/2014/08/19/new-aphex-album/
http://www.cornwallcommunitynews.co.uk/2014/08/19/new-aphex-album/#respondTue, 19 Aug 2014 07:16:26 +0000http://www.cornwallcommunitynews.co.uk/?p=20726Richard D James, the enigmatic and world famous Cornish electronica artist, has tweeted news of his first new album in thirteen years.

Although he’s released music under pseudonyms, Richard hasn’t put his name to anything officially since 2001’s seminal ‘Drukqs’.

The groundbreaking album cemented his international reputation and, boosted as ever by a peculiar knack for idiosyncratic self-promotion, the now 43 year old has been sitting high on the hog ever since.

He moved back to Cornwall some years ago and often shows up at marginal musical events under the name ‘Rob Jones’ or some such, presumably so he doesn’t get hassled.

Among the venues he’s loped around or played at are Falmouth’s old Q-Bar, arts space the Fish Factory and most recently Holifair, where he played an impressive set in a little tent.

Publicly Aphex has done stuff under his own name – only nothing fans can buy and take home. Around the same time he showed up at the Fish Factory he was playing out at London’s Barbican.

This is the noise of Richard remotely playing a full size grand piano swinging across the eclectic venue’s stage.

His tweet says the new album will be called SYRO.

The album’s press release is only available to people who sensibly have TOR installed: the anonymous browser does just that – stops people you don’t want tracking your every online move doing so.

Richard and his promoter Grant Wilson-Claridge take their music dead seriously, and Aphex has been recording and selling, probably with other Rephlex records artists, under the name ‘the Tuss’ on and off for years during his official absence.

When the papers got wind of the news and emailed Grant about it he posted back: “People seem more interested in speculation and celebrity than content, quality or music. Be careful you don’t miss something really great that isn’t really famous.”

Damn straight. And here’s a great way of genning up on good music you may never of heard of – the since unpleasantly popularised but still available ‘What’s in My Bag’ You Tube series.

Oren Ambarchi anyone?

And here’s the Aphex Twin on Twitter. Not that you’ll learn much except that all the tracks have silly names again.

American electronic megastar Skrillex is the latest headliner to be confirmed for this summer’s Eden Sessions, playing the main stage on June 25.

Skrillex joins Dizzee Rascal (June 21), Ellie Goulding (July 8 – sold out), Pixies (July 9) and Elbow (July 14 – sold out – and July 15) on the bill for the 2014 Eden Sessions with ASUS Transformer Book. More acts will be announced soon.

Skrillex, real name Sonny Moore, has sold more than 10 million singles to date.

He released his debut album Recess in March this year which peaked at number one in the UK dance chart. It also debuted in the top ten in the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

Recess came on the heels of a number of acclaimed EPs, including the Grammy-winning Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites and Bangarang. The 26-year-old Skrillex has already won six Grammy Awards.

The Los Angeles-based musician has a staggering social media presence, with 1.4 billion views on YouTube, 16 million Facebook fans and 3.4 million Twitter followers.

The official video for his track Bangarang has been viewed more than 200 million times alone.

Last year he was the most played artist on Soundcloud and fourth most viewed artist on YouTube.

Since 2010, Skrillex has played more than 500 shows in 35 countries.

Skrillex is an incendiary live act, playing at the Reading Festival last year and Glastonbury, Lollapalooza and Bonaroo among others this year.

Besides his solo releases, he has remixed for stars such as Lady Gaga and Nero.

The Eden Sessions enter their thirteenth year in 2014 following an acclaimed series of gigs in 2013 headlined by Jessie J, Sigur Ros, The xx, Kaiser Chiefs and Eddie Izzard.

Last year also saw the launch of Eden Sessions TV (www.youtube.com/edensessionstv), a dedicated free-to-view online channel featuring regularly-updated videos of some of the gigs’ finest shows.

The channel also live-streamed the second night of Jessie J’s sold-out double-header and has already had 1.4 million views since its launch.

Tickets to the Skrillex Eden Session cost £40 plus £5 booking fee and go on sale to Inside Track members today (Tuesday May 6) and on general sale at 6pm on Tuesday May 13.

For more information or to buy Inside Track membership, go to www.edensessions.com. Sessions gig tickets can be purchased online or through the Eden Box Office on 01726 811972.

pix:Crowe, Thomas Cochrane in Punch, Hornblower

Not only did this fictional parody of a man have an outrageously silly name, but the great patriotic hero he was based on always sounded suspiciously like a macho jerk.

How CS Forester and later Patrick O’Brian settled on Thomas Cochrane as some paragon of seamanship, aside from lazy derivation from the swashbuckling bollocks of GA Henty, always baffled me.

My folks were always trying to get me to read Hornblower. And I was always hoping they’d piss off and leave me in a library, somewhere between ‘B’ for Burgess and ‘H’ for Huxley. ‘D’ – say – for Dahl.

So it’s gratifying to discover today that the true-life template for first Horatio Hornblower and then Jack Aubrey, was, as I sort of suspected in a just general I don’t like him child-like way, a convicted conman, a bit of a charlatan, and generally a Victorian flump.

It’s not that he wasn’t brave. But so were any sailors who went to sea and to war at that time; very few were born into rank, and so most lived short, brutal lives and died uncelebrated.

Cochrane – whose posh family fiddled his promotion – won notoriety for pulling a couple of devious stunts at sea that won battles, but was fairly soon sacked by the Navy when he tried and failed to rip off the stock exchange.

He hit back by selling his skippers ticket to Chile and Brazil, fighting their wars of independence.

Great. Liberal Hero.

Of course in reality he fell out with the revolutionaries and extorted them -making him pretty much a mercenary.

But let’s not worry about this juiced in renegade officer being a prototype Mark Thatcher.

Let’s get that other infamous tit, Russell Crowe, a man who hasn’t given a performance that wouldn’t redden the ears of a first year drama student since The Insider, strap him to a cardboard cutlass and call him Aubrey.

Russell Crowe. The very name yells ‘I am a talentless outback twat – please kill me’. Think of his great artistic achievements: Javert in Les Mis; Gerry Adams in Robin Hood; a man who can’t act in A Good Year

This while Ethan Hawke and George Clooney andCate Blanchett and even horrible boy band knobs like Colin Farrell don’t seem to have any trouble occasionally forgoing at least a percentage of their gargantuan A-list pay-packets and choosing artistic, ground-breaking films that the public can actually enjoy.

In Master and Commander, all the worst aspects of both naval life and modern movie-making are hopelessly and depressingly glorified.

Boarding a giant green-screen, Crowe’s naval commander sets to sea all rough and ready and revered by powder monkeys and officers alike.

Barely has the first non-existent wave crashed across the pixellated bow than a boy-officer based not very loosely on Nelson bravely loses his arm and is harmlessly petted by the rough diamond, jolly old crew.

More tears are shed in the scriptwriters union as Crowe jokes heartily about the real Nelson in one of those painful ‘this is the funny bit’ sections of action films in which Christmas Cracker gags are treated with the sort of respect more properly afforded a two hour Las Vegas slot by Noel Coward.

Paul Bettany, possibly the most annoying actor ever to grace a film screen (aside from Russell Crowe, again, in Body of Lies, the worlds most shit film, starring the worlds most beautiful actress) plays a cartoon Darwin, flouncing around with a bloody butterfly net on some pseudo-Galagapos as all around him cliches and thinly veiled plagiarisms viciously beat their way up the food chain to survive into the final edit.

Worst of all, when a well-meaning officer gets picked on by ignorant navvies who brand him a ‘Jonah’ and leaps to his death in a forced suicide – no comment is made by the film at all.

The wind picks up, the navvies lunatic suspicion is confirmed – sheet in, sails set – off we go: hooray!

Balls, isn’t it? Balls of the worst kind.

But – no worries, as Crowe might say: because there’s no shortage of great military and naval movies that kick seven shades of shit out of ‘Master and Commander’. And these are no arthouse flicks.

‘The Bounty’ is a cracking movie.

Anthony Hopkins is riveting. The soundtrack is fantastic. The budget is enormous and the script is simple.

Reel back a few years and there’s even better fare: take ‘The Cruel Sea’.

Jack Hawkins tortured performance is the stuff of legend, and the merciless plot, with a young Denholm Eliott as a cuckold who earns his stripes only to die at sea, not to mention a star turn by the wonderful Stanley Baker – the hard-drinking and smoking renegade who died aged 48 telling his wife he’d ‘spent his life in love’ – is about six million times better filmed in black and white with cameras the size and weight of a walrus than all of the transparently CGI shit Crowe and co. dance around in front of and on board.

In fact clicking on any of these links will probably take you to a You Tube movie or a book that’ll give you back more in an hour or two than Master and Commander could if it trickled on and on, spouting mindless nonsense, for a couple of weeks.

Comic Alan Davies and Flight of the Conchords star Rhys Darby champion the band, whose tongue in cheek lyrics and way-retro beats have found them a niche as a musical comedy act.

Last year they toured Australia and New Zealand last year before playing 30 dates at the Edinburgh Fringe. They will be playing on the main stage in the Mediterranean Biome at 12.30pm.

Their commitment’s starting to pay off and the internet loves them already.

If you want to enter this years Eden Pasty Competition it’s ten quid. Children are charged five pounds.

This entitles the competitor and one guest to free entry to the Eden Project on the day of the competition.

There’ll be ice skating, and masterclasses from renowned pasty experts, including a session on how to make the perfect pasty pastry from top chef Martin Chiffers, formerly of The Savoy in London.

This year’s World Pasty Championships will mark the start of Eden’s “Charity Begins in Cornwall” campaign, which will help ten small Cornish charities with their fundraising.

Eden is working in partnership with the Cornwall Community Foundation, who have chosen the charities, and Localgiving.com, who enable giving and donations to small local charities and community groups.

The campaign will match donations up to a value of £20,000.

Each charity will have a location on the Eden site during the World Pasty Championships where they can talk to visitors about their work. All money donated to the campaign will be split equally among the charities, who are:

Battling Back

Community CIC

Community Greenspace

The Cornwall Down’s Syndrome Support Group

Gwealan Tops

Lizard Child Trust

Pengarth Day Centre

Penhaligon’s Friends

St. Petroc’s Society

Wild Woods

Businesses who would like to support the charities by sponsoring “Charity Begins in Cornwall” should contact Tracey Smith, Eden’s commercial manager, by e-mailing tsmith@edenproject.com.

The Championships are backed by the Cornish Pasty Association after it won European Union Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) status for the Cornish pasty last year. It means only pasty makers based in Cornwall who make pasties in a traditional manner and follow a traditional recipe are able to label their products as Cornish pasties.

]]>http://www.cornwallcommunitynews.co.uk/2014/02/17/marmalade-and-bacon/feed/0EVERYBODY COURT THE DINOSAURhttp://www.cornwallcommunitynews.co.uk/2014/01/16/everybody-court-the-dinosaur/
http://www.cornwallcommunitynews.co.uk/2014/01/16/everybody-court-the-dinosaur/#respondThu, 16 Jan 2014 18:12:34 +0000http://www.cornwallcommunitynews.co.uk/?p=19814Schlock-rock Pantomime Dame Alice Cooper has lent his name to a Parliamentary talent contest that could be a chance for Cornish talent to grace the national stage

And Bodmin MP Dan Rogerson is asking Cornish film-makers and musicians to enter the competition, whose local entrants he will choose.

Corporate contest Rock The House could be a chance for local talent to shine through on to the national stage.

The initiative started last year and this year judges want artists to create work that “raises political awareness of the importance of copyright and intellectual property to the film and music industries.”

You can submit films or music over the next few weeks, with MPs then nominating the best submissions from their constituencies to be presented to a panel of industry experts who determine the finalists.

Prizes range from festival slots, studio time and equipment to the opportunity to have work premiered in London’s West End.

Previous local entrants include film-maker Will Coleman from Bodmin who came 2nd in the 2012 ‘Film the House’ competition. His film, Horn of Plenty, showed storyteller Will Coleman as he strides, pipes, drinks and rows his way across Kernow, welcoming Spring, celebrating Summer, from Helston Flora to Padstow May Day, St Just Lafrowda to Saltash Regatta, telling Cornish creation tale the Horn of Plenty.

Singer-songwriter Harri Larkin from Morwenstow also made the finals of 2013’s Rock the House competition, coming third in the under-19 solo category. Both entries were nominated by North Cornwall MP Dan Rogerson.

Applications are open now and will close on 31 March. For more information on how to enter Rock the House go to www.rockthehouseHOC.com/apply.html; and for Film the House www.filmthehouse.com/apply.html.

Dan Rogerson said: “Rock the House and Film the House are great opportunities for aspiring artists and film directors of any age looking to find a way into their respective industries. Cornwall is a vibrant place with a wealth of talented individuals and this competition is the perfect opportunity for this talent to be showcased in Parliament.

“I would encourage all local musicians and film makers to find out more by clicking on the links above. The deadline for entrants is the 31st March – good luck to those who enter!”

Alice Cooper’s all-round quote, already featuring a good few local papers alongside completely unedited or questioned press releases, is: “Rock the House is a great project which celebrates the fantastic diversity of the British music scene and gives musicians a vehicle through which to hold their legislators accountable.

]]>http://www.cornwallcommunitynews.co.uk/2014/01/16/everybody-court-the-dinosaur/feed/0OVER-RATED FILMS: LOST IN TRANSLATIONhttp://www.cornwallcommunitynews.co.uk/2013/10/03/over-rated-films-lost-in-translation/
http://www.cornwallcommunitynews.co.uk/2013/10/03/over-rated-films-lost-in-translation/#commentsThu, 03 Oct 2013 14:19:08 +0000http://www.cornwallcommunitynews.co.uk/?p=19203There’s very little you can say about Sofia Coppola.

She’s Francis Ford Coppola’s daughter.

She sells sex.

That’s more or less it.

Although, one other thing you are reminded of after watching Lost in Translation, this week’s wildly over-rated ‘classic’ film, is that she’s not short of a quid or two. And never has been. Which – I don’t know about you – I’ve always found to be a problem.

This 2003 sort-of-chick-flick, in which both Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson give epic performances, is a film the end of by which you’re so torn between liking and hating it you can’t even construct grammatically correct sentences. I mean – yes – Bill Murray rocks, even if he is just playing himself. That’s – playing himself – not with himself – clearly – as its partly Murray’s drunken faithlessness that sinks the film to a point at which you’re asking – actually – do I care about either of these self-indulgent fuckers? You know – the well to do gorgeous wife with the successful husband? The hard drinking multi-millionaire actor who spends his days and nights choosing between offers of no strings sex from random women? Of course not. It all may make sense to wealthy tinseltown fuckers – but me? On £6 an hour? After all this isn’t Day of the Locust – I’ve got ITV. I like my celebrities led by their own greed and desperation to a remote forest to eat live cockroaches thank you very much.

No – if you’re going to shoot a movie, or write a book or a play or make any kind of Art with the sheer cheek to take on existential ennui, for fucks sake plant it in the real world. And if you’re going to deal with the rich – for fucks sake be poor. Why is Scott Fitzgeralds Gatsby (now that was just a bad film) still such an icon at the same time as flying off bookshelves? Because he got it. He got it that a lot of rich people tend to be just total cunts. And that a world of Daisys and Toms without Gatsbys is a shallow Hell.

The truth is Lost in Translation is, like its chief protagonists, an insanely shallow movie. It doesn’t mean anything, it’s just Mills and Boon for the educated. And I don’t give a flying fuck what he said to her at the end – unless it was the answer to Life the Universe and Everything. More likely a two hundred dollar tip and his phone number in Acapulco.

So there you go – Scarlet Johansson and Bill Murray ladies and gentlemen. A right royal Fuck off to the boths of you, and next time you’re wobbling around central Tokyo feeling fucking sorry for yourselves, nip in and rent me an explicit Manga movie would you? The kind where girls turn into furry animals and urinate. Because I’ve no real sympathy with any of those cartoon characters either – but at least they’re funny. In the meantime I’m busy – watching these two.

Falmouth’s Fish Factory is laying on a major exhibition of work by Cornish printmakers kicking off with a launch party on Friday.

The show runs from Monday to Saturday 10am – 5pm until 26th July and features work by St Austell’s Jimp , Cornish artist Alice Mahoney, Stuart Blackmore, Ian Crossland and Danielle McGowan.

Ink & Pressure, an exciting contemporary print exhibition featuring home grown and international print makers employing new and exciting ways to use the medium.

The show is curated by Lee McIntyre and will showcase traditional skills used to create contemporary cutting edge handmade prints.

In addition to informing about the history of traditional printing and showcasing an array of different methods there will be hands on opportunities for the public to learn various hand printing techniques.

Workshops will be available in mono printing and screen printing.

In this way the exhibition aims to create a dialogue between experienced and novice printers.

The body of the show will be made up of high quality limited edition prints which will be available to buy at affordable prices.

For more information contact the Fish Factory – fishfactoryarts@live.co.uK, or just click HERE

A young Cornish musician who took to the piano in Launceston as a tot copying her Dad and her sisters is making a national name for herself.

Helen Nash recently played alongside Robbie Williams, live onstage at the 100th Royal Variety performance, and she’s a regular on prime time TV shows accompanying celebrity performers.

Last December, Helen accompanied Williams onstage to perform two of his latest hit ‘Different’ and old classic ‘Mr Bojangles’ for Her Majesty the Queen.

The event was broadcast live to the Nation, attracting over 8.5 million viewers (35% of the audience share). She is also featured in the music video for Williams’ track, ‘Different’.

Hailing from Launceston, Helen is a London-based Pianist and Cellist.

2013 has kicked off to a successful start for Helen and the year ahead is shaping up to be an extremely busy one.

Following on from the Royal Variety performance, Helen recently performed with Kimberly Walsh, on Cello this time, for Walsh’s latest single, ‘One Day I’ll Fly Away’ live on both the BBC and ITV. The national coverage has brought much deserved attention to Helen.

She is focusing on writing new, original music on which she will begin collaborating with other musicians and eventually will perform her new material around the UK.

Her first track releases through the Sauce library music label have already garnered industry attention.

]]>http://www.cornwallcommunitynews.co.uk/2013/06/24/nash-entertainment/feed/0I’M SOANE EXCITEDhttp://www.cornwallcommunitynews.co.uk/2013/04/24/im-soane-excited/
http://www.cornwallcommunitynews.co.uk/2013/04/24/im-soane-excited/#respondWed, 24 Apr 2013 02:55:24 +0000http://www.cornwallcommunitynews.co.uk/?p=17484Port Eliot is lying Festival-fallow this year but there’s a full schedule of attractions for art lovers, families, and just anyone who wants to chill out.

The ancient and beautiful stately home at St Germans will open this spring and into summer for a new series of special events.

Among other things there’ll be Easter trails for children and after-dark tours by candlelight.

Set in more than 100 acres of woodland gardens and park, Port Eliot will open for 100 days, from 11 March-6 June and then again from 10 June-15 July.

On each day, visitors will also be able to roam the woodland gardens and the park – created by landscape gardener Humphrey Repton – which stretches down to a secret estuary of the river Lynher, beneath Brunel’s railway viaduct.

Despite being one of the poshest places in the country, visiting Port Eliot can pan out cheaper and greener than a drive to Eden.

The House at Port Eliot has been lived in for over 1000 years and is the oldest continually inhabited dwelling in the UK.

Augustinian monks were there from the year 937, while the earliest remaining evidence of a dwelling on the site is a 1500-year-old glazed tiled floor, dating from the late Iron Age.

The Grade I-listed medieval priory and house were remodelled in the 18th century by John Soane.

Port Eliot remains a family home, crammed with the accumulated treasures of its long history.

The collection includes fourteen portraits of the Eliot family by Sir Joshua Reynolds, spanning forty years of his career, and ten from the Iconography series by Van Dyck.

Among the many distinctive pieces of furniture are a Louis XIV Boule armoire (which now houses the family’s record collection); a Carlton House desk by George Hepplewhite; an extremely rare 18th century gesso and gilt Queen Anne wedding chest; and a circular carpet which began life in a Russian palace, was later sold by revolutionaries and found its way to a spot under the central dome of Brighton Pavilion, before ending up in perhaps the most notable room at Port Eliot, the Round Room.

Regarded as one of Sir John Soane’s masterpieces, the Round Room is 13m in diameter, 5.5m high and stands over former monastic dormitories and an abbot’s lodge.

Soane raised the ceiling of the Round Room, changed the position of the windows and constructed a very shallow and curved plaster domed ceiling.

Today, the room is dominated by celebrated south-west artist Robert Lenkiewicz’s masterpiece ‘Riddle Mural’, created over twenty years and depicting ‘the Condition of Man’.

A captivating addition this year will be Marking The Line, a new exhibition by a group of leading contemporary potters and ceramicists, aiming to inspire lovers of art and architecture.

Following a run at the Sir John Soane’s Museum, the exhibition will open from 22 May – 15 July at Port Eliot, before completing its run at Soane’s weekend ‘dream house’, Pitzhanger Manor in Ealing, west London.

Catherine St Germans said “We are pleased to open our home to new visitors, particularly at a time when the festival is having a year off and we’re able to organise new events.

“As you make your way around Port Eliot, it is possible to detect the hands of many architects but none more so than Soane, who made the House the way it is today; so we are excited to be bringing Marking The Line, an important new exhibition with a clear Soane influence, into a house which shows powerful evidence of the range of his design talents.”

SPECIAL EVENTS AT PORT ELIOT

31 March – Easter Egg Hunt and family Easter Egg Trail across the ancient estate. From 2pm.

13 April – Port Eliot House & Gardens open in aid of Cornwall Blind Association. From 2- 6pm, Port Eliot will be exhibiting a collection of historic items which can be handled by visitors, a rarity in a stately home.

14 April – Classic Car Rally drive-through. Up to 85 magnificent cars will snake around the estate in the afternoon; a great chance to bring a picnic and enjoy a special day out.

11 May – Port Eliot Dog Festival in aid of Children’s Hospice SW. The return of a riotous annual event in which Port Eliot’s resident whippets, Roo and Lark, invite dogs of all stripes to their home for a party. Held in aid of the new Little Harbour hospice in St Austell, the event will be a day of dog shows, competitions, agility training, horse and cart rides, music from local bands, food and a spectacular whippet tea party, in which dogs take over Port Eliot and have the run of the gardens.

From 11am-4.30pm. Adults £3; children under 11 free. All dog show classes £1 entry.

12 May – Pony Country Canter in aid of Children’s Hospice SW.
Full details to follow soon.

18 May – Museums at Night. A beautiful candle-lit evening as Port Eliot opens its doors for a rare visit after dark, tours of the tunnels under the estate and music from pianist and composer Paul K Joyce in Soane’s Round Room.

18 May – Summer concert – Haydn, Handel and Mozart, St Germans Priory Church
East Cornwall Bach Choir presents the first of two summer concerts featuring an exciting pair of vocal and orchestral works, separated by Mozart’s Divertimento for Strings, K136. The earlier of the choral pieces is number nine of the eleven Grand Anthems which Handel wrote for the Duke of Chandos, O Praise the Lord With One Consent. The main work is Haydn’s Nelson Mass (1798), the best known of the six great orchestral Mass settings he composed between 1796 and 1802, and which seems touched by the atmosphere of tension and drama associated with the turbulent events of the Napoleonic Wars. Conductor: Paul Ellis; Orchestra: Divertimento

Times: 7-9.30pm. Tickets: From Liskeard Tourist Information Centre and www.ecbc.co.uk
Adults £16.00; Full-time students £8; Children under 12 free.
Two-for-one entry to Port Eliot for people attending the concert, either before or after the performance.

22 May-15 July – Marking the Line: Ceramics and Architecture. A group of leading contemporary ceramic artists will fill some of Soane’s finest rooms with brand new works inspired by the architect, his creations and collections. New installations, abstract architectural ceramics and sculpture will provide a compelling complement to Soane’s signature convex mirrors and domed ceilings in the new exhibition. Curated by international ceramics authority Joanna Bird, the exhibition presents innovative new works within Soane’s dramatic and idiosyncratic settings. Ceramicist and trained architect Nicholas Rena’s simple but powerful abstract yellow, orange and red forms will sit alongside Christie Brown’s reinterpretations of Soane’s family portraits; Brazilian ceramicist Carina Ciscato’s delicate yet tactile ceramic vessels will give a nod to Soane’s architectural quirks, while the British artist Clare Twomey will introduce 1000 bone china bowls decorated with gold and probing the subject of legacy. Taking Soane’s own artistic legacy as her starting point, each of Twomey’s bowls will carry a quotation outlining the impression that a man would like to leave on the world. The collected new work offers a captivating and intricate look towards the future in a historic setting. Throughout its run, the exhibition will host a whole series of free educational workshops for local communities and schools, including family workshops and evening tours.

The Eliot family has lived at Port Eliot since 1565. The estate is called Port Eliot as it was once a busy monastic port, known as Port Priory. Water flowed right up to the front door and the house could only be approached by boat, across what is now the park. In the 18th century, the Eliots built a dam to divert the estuary away from their home, employing Repton to create the park and gardens. Almost certainly responsible for securing the monastery for the family was Henry VIII courtier Sir Thomas Elyot, who compiled what is considered the first English dictionary, championing the use of English ahead of Latin and contributing many new words, including the word ‘democracy’ to the English language.
The House itself covers many centuries: there are 9th century foundations, 10th century walls containing 13th century lancet windows and the distinctive and ingenious 18th century design details of Soane. Today, Port Eliot is home to the 10th Earl and Countess of St Germans.
There will be no Port Eliot Festival in 2013; it will return in 2014, running from 24-27 July. The year off will be a chance for the gardens to thrive and for the Port Eliot organisers to plot for 2014.